Rhetorical Strategies

Anchor Text- The New Yorker, "Is 'Anna Karenina' a Love Story?"


Think about rhetorical strategies we have learned this year and that you already knew. (You might want to copy these down!)
  • diction- connotation
  • imagery
  • details
  • syntax
  • allusion
  • figurative language (simile, metaphor, personification, idiom, hyperbole...)
  • parallel structure
  • repetition
  • anaphora
  • epistrophe
  • symploce
  • antithesis
  • juxtaposition
  • appositive
  • parenthetical
  • aphorism
  • rhetorical question

On the graphic organizer, find 3 examples of rhetorical strategies utilized in the text. Complete the graphic organizer by naming the strategy, commenting on the significance of the strategy, and discussing the author's purpose in the use of this strategy.

Share with class using document camera. Students should make annotations of strategies/text details that they didn't write down.